to be feeling a bit scared of DH and not know what to do?

[onmythirdglass]

Love my DH and know he loves me. He is a lovely kind gentle person, thoughtful as well. Its all good really. But I am starting to get quite scared by something. That is, he suffers from nightmares from time to time and when he does he gets really aggressive in his sleep. He thrashes about and screams. I can't wake him up. One time he got me in some kind of hold and actually threw me out of bed. Another time he thrashed around so much he knocked a hole in the plaster. Last week he punched me in the forehead and I had a bruise and last night it happened again, this time bruises to the arm.
I know he doesn't mean to do this but I am getting quite scared.
I don't want to stop sleeping together - it only happens from time to time. But what is causing this? Could it be stress? Has anyone got any experience of something like this?

How scary for you all. Good that he has agreed to be seen though

Oh I feel for you. DH has never been violent but I have had some very scary momens with him, where he seems to be wide awake (he isn't) but he sees things in the corner of the room and it scares the shit out if me! He would sometimes grab hold of me and he would be actng like there was an alien in the room. he would say "what's that?" etc etc and have full conversations with me. He once told me before he met me he ended up naked at the bottom of the garden running away from something he'd seen He did it all of the time when we were first living together, we've lived in this house 3 years and he did it initially but i'd say must be 2 years ago now it last happened and nothing since - weird

Good luck getting sorted out, must be horrible for both of you.

How did you get on with the doctor, onmythirdglass?